Ninni
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: inflection of ninnare:
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ninni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 6.1K
- NONorway1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,738 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ninni är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på -ni-/-in-, t.ex. → Ingrid, → Elin. En känd namnbärare är författaren Ninni Schulman (f. 1972). I den finlandssvenska alma nackan 26 oktober.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Ninni is read(measured from records)
Ninni is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish18%
Ninni är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på -ni-/-in-, t.ex. → Ingrid, → Elin. En känd namnbärare är författaren Ninni Schulman (f. 1972). I den finlandssvenska alma nackan 26 oktober.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ninni in Hindi.
- Italian14%
var. regional de Nini.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
inflection of ninnare:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ninni in English.
- Finnish9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ninni in Finnish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ninni counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,738 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ninni is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In aa, ourselves
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, lullaby
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mfy, tongue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ninni Kronbergb. 1874SESwedish inventor
- Ninni Bergstenb. 1884SESwedish painter (1884–1949)
- Ninni Elliotb. 1918SESwedish actress (1918-2014)
- Ninny Caruccib. 1942ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer, musician, and composer
- Ninni Holmqvistb. 1958SESwedish writer
- Ninni Eglénb. 1967SESwedish fencer
- Ninni Schulmanb. 1972SESwedish writer
- Ninni Aaltob. 1974FIFinnish illustrator and cartoonist
- Ninni Laaksonenb. 1986FIFinnish beauty pageant contestant
- Ninni Sponeactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #75,270 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ninni?
- A machine transcription gives /nini/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- What does the name Ninni mean?
- In Italian, inflection of ninnare:
- Is Ninni a male or female name?
- Ninni is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ninni have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Ninni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ninni.
- Where is Ninni most common?
- Ninni is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ninni?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,738 people named Ninni, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ninni?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ninniThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ninni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.